Disruptive Innovation…in Reverse: a Theoretical Framework to Look at New Product Development from Emerging Economies

It is now clear that emerging economies are gaining increasing importance in the global innovation system. Their actual role is perhaps the central question driving the growing interest in this topic and to which this paper attempts to respond. Although several authors have identified and discussed the process of innovation from emerging economies, it remains under-explored. We view the disruptive innovation (Christensen, 1997) and reverse innovation (Immelt et al, 2009) paradigms side by side: two theories that we think offer interesting and complementary perspectives when we position emerging markets at the centre of the stage as a source of innovation. By analyzing different definitions and descriptions provided by the literature on innovation for and from emerging economies, this paper attempts a reinterpretation of the concept of reverse innovation, defined as a type of disruptive innovation.Disruptive Innovation, Reverse Innovation, Emerging Economies, Product Development, Cost Innovation, R&D Internationalization.

Analysis of consumer preferences for information and expert opinion using a discrete choice experiment

We present a study of consumer preferences for information in wine purchases. Consumers are presented with extra information in the form of qualitative product descriptions and quantitative expert ratings. We implement a discrete choice exper- iment in which we vary experimentally the presence of the descriptions and ratings and the values of the ratings themselves. Respondents are asked to choose amongst a set of 5 wine bottles in a sequence of 21 choice scenarios. We find that the presence of extra information and high expert ratings have a significant impact on the will- ingness to pay for a given wine. The dispersion of ratings for a given wine does not affect respondents’ choices. In our estimates high average ratings by experts carry a premium of AUD $10.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Reverse innovation:a new world order for global innovation?

Recognizing the growing role that emerging economies play in the global innovation landscape, the article provides a measure for the extent of the phenomenon identifying Asia as the main source of a new threat – and opportunity- for Western companies: reverse innovation. The authors delineate this new phenomenon by adopting the perspectives of three different types of executives that either facilitate or are impacted by reverse innovation: managers of Western companies operating in their home markets, directors of Western subsidiaries in emerging markets, and executives of emerging market firms. Finally, recommendations on how to tackle the threat are drawn

Reverse innovation: a new world order for global innovation?

Recognising the growing role that emerging economies play in the global innovation landscape, the article provides a measure for the extent of the phenomenon identifying Asia as the main source of a new threat – and opportunity- for Western companies: reverse innovation. The authors delineate this new phenomenon by adopting the perspectives of three different types of executives that either facilitate or are impacted by reverse innovation: managers of Western companies operating in their home markets, directors of Western subsidiaries in emerging markets, and executives of emerging market firms. Finally, recommendations on how to tackle the threat are drawn

Reverse innovation for global sustainable development: a conceptualisation

Purpose: we offer a first conceptualization of sustainable reverse innovation, by discussing the contribution of innovation from the Global South towards sustainable development. In so doing, we aim at recognizing an active role played by developing countries in creating viable and innovative solutions that can contribute to the achievement of sustainable development for all.Design/methodology/approach: we present five innovation vignettes and discuss them through an antecedents-enablers-consequences scheme for exploring the concept of sustainable reverse innovation. While discussing the model components, we develop propositions to drive future research directions.Findings: we contribute to both development studies and innovation studies by recognizing and highlighting the role played by businesses in addressing global challenges through sustainable innovation sourced from or inspired by developing countries.Originality: this is the first study that offers a conceptualization of sustainable reverse innovation that goes beyond the low-cost and frugality connotation that has characterized the debate surrounding innovation from emerging economies

Reverse innovation for global sustainable development: a conceptualisation

Purpose: we offer a first conceptualization of sustainable reverse innovation by discussing the contribution of innovation from the Global South towards sustainable development. In so doing, we aim at recognizing an active role played by developing countries in creating viable and innovative solutions that can contribute to the achievement of sustainable development for all. Design/methodology/approach: we present five innovation vignettes and discuss them through an antecedents-enablers-consequences scheme for exploring the concept of sustainable reverse innovation. While discussing the model components, we develop propositions to drive future research directions. Findings: we contribute to both development studies and innovation studies by recognizing and highlighting the role played by businesses in addressing global challenges through sustainable innovation sourced from or inspired by developing countries.   Originality: this is the first study that offers a conceptualization of sustainable reverse innovation that goes beyond the low-cost and frugality connotation that has characterized the debate surrounding innovation from emerging economies

Extracting standard naval routes from AIS data: Insights from an In-Depth Analysis of the Arctic Region

This research contributes to the literature with a methodology for the extraction of standard naval routes from AIS data (data from international naval Automatic Identification System). A fundamental objective of our work is to sup- port environmental surveillance of maritime activities, including the detection of anomalous ship behavior and safe&rescue operations, both involving a need to define the expected behavior of ships in terms of standard routes. Previous re- search mostly focuses on the comparison of the performance of different statisti- cal and machine learning techniques. In our work, we draw from previous re- search the best performing ML approach (unsupervised) and we focus on the de- sign of an end-to-end data processing pipeline that combines ML techniques with data pre-processing rules and geographical information with the goal of making data usable. Our methodology has been tested on a 3-year time series of AIS data, with a focus on the Arctic region. Results show how standard routes can be ef- fectively extracted with good precision owing to the robust sequence of our meth- odological steps. Our algorithm has identified roughly 400 standard routes in the Arctic region, starting from a total of over 140 million AIS messages. Results show how working on data cleaning, accurately calculating distance among routes, and applying two phases of clustering on different sets of features are crucial for the dependability of results. Further work will be conducted in the ARCOS project to build a complete, longitudinal dataset of standard routes to be released as open data